Traqueros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traqueros write by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo. This book was released on 2012. Traqueros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexican history in the United States--and Mexico--than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the railroads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Construction crews soon became railroad workers proper, along with maintenance crews later. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. The substantial Mexican American populations in these regions today are largely attributable to 19th- and 20th-century railroad work. Only agricultural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexicans. The full history of Mexican American railroad labor and settlement in the United States had not been told, however, until Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo's groundbreaking research in Traqueros. Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers' daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted Americanization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and "traquero culture" finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class communities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.
Traqueros
Traqueros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Traqueros write by Jeffrey Marcos Garcilazo. This book was released on 1995. Traqueros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State
The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State write by Michael Melancon. This book was released on 2006-01-27. The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1912 a thin line of Russian soldiers, confronted by a large crowd of gold miners on strike for several weeks, reacted with fear and anger. At their officers’ orders, they opened fire, shooting five hundred unarmed protestors. The event reverberated across Russia. The Lena goldfields massacre can be viewed from several distinct viewpoints, each presenting a contrasting story. Author Michael Melancon avoids prematurely picking a “right” way of looking at the massacre. Instead, he explores all aspects of the incident, from the despair of the miners at the poor conditions they faced, to the calculations and priorities of the mining entrepreneurs and state officials, and even the rationale of the soldiers who pulled the triggers. The Lena Goldfields Massacre and the Crisis of the Late Tsarist State will appeal to anyone interested in labor relations, in revolutionary movements, and in transitions associated with modernization. Its comparative framework will be helpful for generalists and Europeanists. It will also provide food for thought for those who seek a carefully researched examination of Russian society during the early twentieth century.
Texas Labor History
Texas Labor History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Texas Labor History write by Bruce A. Glasrud. This book was released on 2013-02-20. Texas Labor History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A helpful new source for scholars and teachers who wish to fill in some of the missing pieces. Tackling a number of such presumptions—that a viable labor movement never existed in the Lone Star State; that black, brown, and white laborers, both male and female, were unable to achieve even short-term solidarity; that labor unions in Texas were ineffective because of laborers’ inability to confront employers—the editors and contributors to this volume lay the foundation for establishing the importance of labor to a fuller understanding of Texas history.
Mexican Chicago
Mexican Chicago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mexican Chicago write by Gabriela F. Arredondo. This book was released on 2008. Mexican Chicago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Becoming Mexican in early-twentieth-century Chicago
